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Edges in Fibonacci cubes, Lucas cubes and complements

Combinatorics 2021-02-09 v1

Abstract

The Fibonacci cube of dimension n, denoted as Γ_n\Gamma\_n, is the subgraph of the hypercube induced by vertices with no consecutive 1's. The irregularity of a graph G is the sum of |d(x)-d(y)| over all edges {x,y} of G. In two recent paper based on the recursive structure of Γ_n\Gamma\_n it is proved that the irregularity of Γ_n\Gamma\_n and Λ_n\Lambda\_n are two times the number of edges of Γ_n1\Gamma\_{n-1} and 2n2n times the number of vertices of Γ_n4\Gamma\_{n-4}, respectively. Using an interpretation of the irregularity in terms of couples of incident edges of a special kind (Figure 2) we give a bijective proof of both results. For these two graphs we deduce also a constant time algorithm for computing the imbalance of an edge. In the last section using the same approach we determine the number of edges and the sequence of degrees of the cube complement of Γ_n\Gamma\_n.

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@article{arxiv.2102.04086,
  title  = {Edges in Fibonacci cubes, Lucas cubes and complements},
  author = {Michel Mollard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04086},
  year   = {2021}
}
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